Below are some of my publications. Citations highlighted in blue are included within this website and available to read as pdf files. I do not own the copyrights of any of the works listed below. Please respect the various institutions' rights and treat these files under "fair use" guidelines, similar to those used when photocopying material.

Monographs

• Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan. Forthcoming in 2005. (Currently at indexing stage.)

Major articles and essays

• “Nijo.” In Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, Inc. Forthcoming.
• “Tarrying with the negative: Aesthetic vision in Murasaki and Mishima.” In The Tale of Genji. Edited with introduction by Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations series. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
• “不定的なもののもとへの滞留.” ユリイカ Eureka 12 (November and December 2000). Part One and Part Two. A translation of “Anxiety of erotic longing and Murasaki Shikibu’s aesthetic vision.”
  • Part One
  • Part Two
• “Romantic entreaty in The Kagero Diary (10th c. Japan) and The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (12th c. France).” In Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers. Edited by Barbara Stevenson. New Middle Ages series. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
• “Abutsu-ni.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Japanese Medieval Writers. Edited by Stephen D. Carter. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999.
• “Fujiwara Tameie.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Japanese Medieval Writers. Edited by Stephen D. Carter. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman publishers, 1999.
• “Reading the rhetoric of seduction in Izumi Shikibu nikki.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58 (December 1998). (Also available at JSTOR, a subscription website that provides access to academic journals. Go to: JSTOR.ORG )
• “Anxiety of erotic longing and Murasaki Shikibu’s aesthetic vision.” Nichibunken Japan Review 10 (March 1998).
• “Tarrying with the negative: Aesthetic vision in Murasaki and Mishima.” Monumenta Nipponica 52 (Summer 1997). (See the Harold Bloom version, above. Also available at JSTOR, a subscription website that provides access to academic journals. Go to: JSTOR.ORG )
• “英語圏における女流日記文学研究 [Japanese Women’s Memoirs Research in English].” 国文学ー解釈と鑑賞 Kokubungaku--Kaishaku to kansho 62 (May 1997).
• “Fitful Slumbers: Nun Abutsu’s Utatane.” Monumenta Nipponica 43 (Winter 1988). (Also available at JSTOR, a subscription website that provides access to academic journals. Go to: JSTOR.ORG )
  • Introduction to the translation
  • Translation

Other articles, essays & reviews

• “Chikamatsu Monzaemon.” In Great Lives from History: The Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, Inc. Forthcoming.
• “The renga masterpiece Minase sangin hyakuin.” In Great Events from History: The Renaissance, 1454-1600. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, Inc. Forthcoming.
• “王朝日記文学における＜境界＞と心のバランス [“Borders” and emotional equilibrium in Heian period women’s literary memoirs].” In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Japanese Literature (1998). National Institute of Japanese Literature, 1999.
• Review of A Women’s Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji, by Doris B. Bargen. Monumenta Nipponica 52 (Autumn 1997).
• “Longing for one’s lover: A cross-cultural comment.” Nichibunken Newsletter 27 (March 1997). Front page essay.
• “アイデンティティー・文化交流・自由さ [Identity--Cultural Exchange--Freedom].” In日文研 Nichibunken, Special Issue Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1997.
• “Strategies of Seduction in Izumi Shikibu nikki.” Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies 1994, Volume 3. International Research Center for Japanese Studies and The Japan Foundation, 1996.
• Comments as discussant on panel “Feminism and Sexuality.” In PMAJLS --Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies: Revisionism in Japanese Literary Studies. Vol. 2 Edited by Eiji Sekine. West Lafayette, IN: Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 1996.
• “Classical waka and the origins of Heian nikki bungaku--A theoretical essay on inter-genre relationship.” In Poetics of Japanese Literature. Edited by Roger K. Thomas. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and Purdue University, 1993.
• “Round Table Discussion on the Teaching of Japanese Literature.” In Poetics of Japanese Literature. Edited by Roger K. Thomas. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and Purdue University, 1993.
• Review of The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature, by Michele Marra. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (March 1992).

Reference material

• Index to Bungo Manual: Selected Reference Materials for Students of Classical Japanese. Compiled by Helen Craig McCullough. Cornell University East Asia Papers, no. 48. Ithaca: Cornell University, East Asia Program, 1993 (third printing).